Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Verb
S: (v) detect, observe, find, discover, notice (discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of) "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"
S: (v) find out, catch out (trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act) "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks"
S: (v) sense (detect some circumstance or entity automatically) "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization"
S: (v) instantiate (find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word)) "The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect"
S: (v) trace (discover traces of) "She traced the circumstances of her birth"
S: (v) see (observe as if with an eye) "The camera saw the burglary and recorded it"
S: (v) unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out, uncover (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret) "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case"; "The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings"
S: (v) discover (see for the first time; make a discovery) "Who discovered the North Pole?"
S: (adj) ascertained, discovered, observed (discovered or determined by scientific observation) "variation in the ascertained flux depends on a number of factors"; "the discovered behavior norms"; "discovered differences in achievement"; "no explanation for the observed phenomena"